In this article, I will show you how to use Scaffolding With your ASP.net MVC 5 Application. I assume that you all know about scaffolding and I don’t need to explain it again. In our previous post, we have also explained about Scaffolding with the Repository Pattern in ASP.NET MVC 3.

In this article, we will be more focus in adding scaffolded item to ASP.net MVC 5.

1. Let's create an ASP.net MVC 5 web application in Visual Studio 2013 and name it as ScaffoldingMVC5.

2. Right click your Controllers folder and Add New Scaffolded Item is as below.

3. From the Add Scaffold window, select the MVC 5 Controller with views,using Entity Framework scaffold template.

4. Add a controller. Please see the below screenshot

Then, please fill a name for your Data context as below, for example DataContext

5. You have done great job and this is the result

Testing the Result

Index Page

Create Page

Details Page

Edit Page

Delete Page

All above CRUD operations were generated according to our Model class Pet.

Pet.cs

Key points of the above code

• [ScaffoldColumn(false)] means,the property which it declared will not use for scaffolding.In other words, that property will not be shown on the UI (i.e. Created property will not be shown).
• Data validations of the form elements are happening ,according to the above model's Data Annotation values.
• Let's explore it.

If you click the Create button, without entering anything.What will happen ?

What if you try to enter a wrong data type ?

Calender has been shown, if it's a DateTime property.

Great, right?